"What's going on over there?"

In addition to the ministers, there were many people gathered at the Chunmingmen Outer Rail Station today, including the great food scholar Abdure.

He had been in Chang'an for more than a month, but he had never been able to find a way to study in Guozijian.

While waiting for news from Wei Jiansu's side, he also paid attention to the capital of the Tang Dynasty.

On the way north, he saw a lot of cities in the Tang Dynasty, Quanzhou, which has always been an important port, Huating, the emerging Huating, Dengzhou, one of the most important ports in the north, and Luoyang, the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, he was very interested in the rut track, and he heard that there was a special ceremony here today, so he also mixed in with the people to see the excitement.

He saw that the procession that had been lined up neatly to get on the special iron-headed rutted rail car suddenly became a little chaotic, and there seemed to be an argument.

"It was the Silla and the Japanese who quarreled, and they have always been quarrelsome." Some people were not surprised, and they walked with their hands in their hands.

There were many Tang envoys and students from Silla and Japan in Chang'an City, and Abdureh had also seen them these days, and he knew that they could enter the country to study, which made Abdureh full of envy and hatred. When he applied to Wei Jiansu, he used this as a reason. Therefore, when he heard that the Silla and the Japanese were arguing, he felt a little happy in his heart for some reason.

But the clash did not last long, and then several people were seen being driven out of the ranks, and those people looked ugly, and Abdurej asked curiously: "What is the matter?" ”

"The imperial court expelled the Japanese envoy from the crowd on the grounds that he had violated foreign affairs etiquette, ordered him to return to the country, and ordered the lord of the country to change the envoy." Some people who understood the negotiation process between the two sides laughed.

"Is this the imperial court preparing to do something to Japan?" A businessman next to him suddenly shouted, "Then I have to hurry up and buy stocks!" ”

Stocks are not a new thing for the people of Datang, they have appeared as early as when Ye Chang ran the Andong Chamber of Commerce, but the stocks listed and traded are still relatively fresh, stemming from the war against Silla last year. After the end of the war, the value of the chambers that had subscribed to the conquest bonds issued by the imperial court had almost doubled—and everyone knew that the goods of these chambers would be unimpeded in Silla in the future.

"The Japanese are killing themselves." Someone whispered: "Our Royal Highness King Wei, but we can't rub sand in our eyes, we dare to make this incident on King Wei's happy day!" ”

"Do you know what Lu said, if you don't get involved in this incident, won't you fight Japan? Some time ago, I heard the head of the Guangling Chamber of Commerce say that Japan is rich in gold and silver, but it strictly restricts the entry of our Datang goods, and has repeatedly connived at the soldiers to extort the Datang merchant ships, and even been plundered and killed by them. It is tolerable or unbearable, originally King Wei wanted to clean up the Bohai Kingdom first, but the Lord of the Bohai Kingdom saw the situation of Silla, and asked for the opening of the market for trade, and now he naturally has to pick up Japan to clean up! ”

These whispers reached Abdullah's ears, and Abdullre found it strange that these Tang people were not very enthusiastic about religion, and no matter what religion they professied, few of them, except for full-time monks, were immersed in the world of religion all day long. But the Chinese people have two preferences, but religion makes them more fanatical, one is learning, their empress and the prime minister attach so much importance to education, and treat it as a national event to do, in various places in the Tang Dynasty, schools are now being built, and people with a little talent in the Tang Dynasty will study hard. The other is to participate in politics, in any corner of the Tang Dynasty, those who are idle will always talk loudly, evaluate a certain policy, or discuss something that has happened recently.

They value the present life and ignore the next, and they value reality and despise the kingdom of God...... No, that's not right, but they also attach great importance to the afterlife, for example, they exhort people to cultivate merit regardless of their faith, and they are always very respectful and pious when they worship their ancestors in the kingdom of heaven...... The people of this country, what a strange contradiction. ”

Abdul was pondering how to evaluate the Tang people, and Fujiwara Shinkachi, who had been expelled from the team, looked disillusioned and had a blank expression.

He was sent to Datang as a Japanese envoy, and unlike the previous envoys to the Tang Dynasty, now the Japanese envoy to the Tang Dynasty took the sea ship of the Tang Dynasty merchants from Japan to Datang, and the time it took was only a few days, or even five days if he was lucky. Therefore, as the ruling Fujiwara Nakama, who is the ruler of Japan, he is just a vast sea wave, and he also sent his beloved son as an envoy. The first is that this mission is very important, and only his son can rest assured, and the second is to accumulate some qualifications for this son to prepare for further progress in the future.

"There are three things you must pay attention to during your trip to Datang, and you must do it well. One is to test the meaning of the Tang Dynasty, I want to attack Silla, share its wealth, and have secretly ordered the countries to build warships, but Silla is a subject country of the Tang Dynasty, although the Tang Dynasty has crusaded against it before, but I don't know if it is to allow me to get a piece of the pie; The second is to learn the skills of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty has a vast staff, and the talents are endless, and now the Prime Minister Wei Wang is a genius, wise and virtuous, better than in the past, I Japan to learn the Tang Dynasty rules and regulations, but also to learn the Tang Dynasty skills; Third...... Now the emperor in the court is quite dissatisfied with me, although he hides it, but I know what he does, if he can get the approval of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor can only continue to hide it. All three of these things are very important, and you must do them well! ”

It must be said that the self-righteousness of Japanese politicians is consistent, and Fujiwara Nakamaro is no different from the Japanese politicians more than 1,300 years later; on the one hand, they want to seek the interests of the Tang Dynasty, and on the other hand, they also fantasize about gaining the support of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, any so-called new thinking that thinks it can influence Japan is either the speculation of those who are shallow and ugly, or it is a traitor who has taken advantage of Japan.

It was with Fujiwara Nakamaro's confession that Fujiwara Xin Jiazhi took the opportunity to test, he originally thought that such disputes had often happened before, and the Tang Emperor generally mediated the matter, but he never thought that after the matter was reported to Ye Chang, the Wei Wang, who was called a wise and virtuous man by his father, directly ordered him and his entourage to be expelled from the Tang Dynasty, and did not even give him the opportunity to meet and listen to his defense.

"Let's go, let's go!" Just when Fujiwara Shinkachi looked at a loss, the forbidden army behind him was already urging him. According to King Wei, this guy has become "persona non grata", and he was ordered to leave Chang'an within three days, and was sent to Beihai under the supervision of the sergeant, where he left Datang by boat. For the forbidden army, the guy who angered the king naturally didn't need to be polite to him, he could be as rough as he could.

Fujiwara Shinkachi wiped a handful of sweat and said with a wry smile: "This official, please take it a while, I still have something important to ask to see King Wei, maybe I can save ......"

"King Wei has always been a man of his word, saying that if you are expelled, you will be expelled, even if you want to see King Wei, you will wait for an envoy to change before talking! A small island country, what Datang arranges you to do, you just do it honestly, but what kind of ghost idea do you want to play, play with a careful eye to play on our Huaxia, but is it still the end of the whip? The forbidden military officer sneered twice, and slashed the knife in his hand: "Go, don't delay!" ”

The disgraced Japanese were driven away, and there was a lot of boos around him, and Abdul was happy to see it, but his attention was quickly drawn to what was happening on the other side of the train.

The bell rang on the train, and no matter when or where, the bell was a reminder of people's attention, so the people who were talking in the small square in front of the station stopped.

Shou'an, Ye Chang and others have already boarded the car, this original train has eight carriages, the first is the forbidden army, and Shou'an, Ye Chang and others are located in the second section, and then there are ministers, relatives and foreign envoys. The body is made of hardwood frame with planks and flannel, and the glass windows are installed with push-up windows, which are opened, and the people sitting inside are curious to look out, and the people outside are also curious to look inside the car.

"No problem, right?" Shou An asked Ye Chang in the car.

"There should be no problem." Ye Chang was also a little apprehensive, he shook his head, and turned to it: "The horse-drawn rutted rail train, one trip has a limited capacity, and the speed is not fast, and it takes half a day to reach the Hot Spring Palace." The locomotive pulled by this firepower can carry several times or even dozens of times, and the speed is also faster. Shou'an, think about it, if such a rutted train leads to every strategic place in the Tang Dynasty, starting from Chang'an, it will only take more than seven days to reach any prefecture and county in the Tang Dynasty. In the past, the concubine liked to eat lychees, but the imperial court poured the power of the country into it, and she could only pay tribute to lychees, and by that time, all Chang'an people could eat lychees! ”

He used lychee as a metaphor, and Shou An thought so. In fact, not all the lychees eaten by Yang Yuhuan are produced in Lingnan, many of them are from Fuzhou, even so, it is not easy for the people of Chang'an to eat fresh lychees. Fortunately, in the past few years, the method of saltpeter ice freezing has spread, so the rich family can rely on this method to eat some expensive lychees.

What restricts its big sales is not production, but transportation, and in this era, transportation is not smooth, and there are too many good things hidden in the place of origin that cannot be transferred, and finally wasted.

"Eleven Lang, you're a foodie." When Ye Chang mentioned lychees, his two children were clamoring to eat lychees, especially his daughter, who had just learned to speak, called "Zhizhi, Zhizhi" in a milky voice, which made Shou An give him a blank look, and then hugged his daughter into his arms: "Don't make the children hungry!" ”

"It's good to be greedy, if you are not greedy, you will not grow strong!" Ye Chang said with a smile.

At this moment, a man in uniform arrived at his carriage and saluted him and Shou'an: "Your Majesty, Your Highness, everything is ready, the boiler has been burned, please Your Majesty, Your Highness instruct!" ”

Ye Chang smiled and signaled to Shou An, when giving orders, Shou An usually came forward, which was the division of labor between the husband and wife. Shou An didn't ask about specific things, but she was the highest person in etiquette.

"Let's get started." Shou An hugged the little princess on his lap, and then waved.

The man saluted again and turned to leave, and at this time the people outside had already seen that thick white smoke was coming out of the head of the locomotive, and at first people exclaimed that it was on fire, but there were also imaginative humanites: "That's not a fire, this is an iron dragon, and there is a dragon's nose over there, and it is swallowing clouds and spitting fog!" ”

Regardless, the people watching the excitement soon noticed that the iron car shook violently, then rang the bell again, and began to move slowly forward.

The first trial operation of this train was very shocking to the people in Chang'an City. When they saw the iron car without horses, oxen or manpower, dragging a long eight-car carriage, slowly driving out of Chang'an East Station, and then running towards the east, they let out an earth-shattering cry, the sound was so loud, for a while, almost suppressed the rumble of the train.

Abdul watched in horror as the steel monster roared forward, and he was even more shocked than the inhabitants of Chang'an. The residents of Chang'an have seen a lot of new affairs over the years, and they have a little bit of foundation, but Abdureh is the first time to see an epoch-making invention appear in front of his eyes.

"This ...... O saints, true gods, am I hallucinating, or am I seeing the devil...... How is this possible, even if King Solomon is reincarnated, he will not have such power! Even if there is a lamp god in the desert, it is impossible to conjure such a thing......"

Abdure's faith was originally very firm, although after coming to Datang, in order to pursue knowledge, he obeyed the hadith and did something that conflicted with his beliefs against his will, but deep in his heart, he still had a condescending mentality of "those who have scriptures", looking at the "scriptures" of Datang, but at this moment, he felt that the true god he believed in was not as good as the "heaven" that Datang believed in, and his ancestor was 108,000 miles away from Ye Chang.

At least that sage, apart from boasting, did not bring such a "divine object" to the big cannibal in front of them.

Because it was the first time that the train was running on a rutted track other than the test tracks, the train did not run fast, and the speed was about 20 miles per hour, which was much slower than riding a horse. But it can last, from Chang'an to Lishan, a distance of more than 60 miles, and it will arrive in an hour and a half. They set off in the morning and arrived at Lishan just in time for lunch, which surprised the accompanying ministers and nobles.

"Your Majesty, Your Highness!"

Wei saw that he didn't care about etiquette, so he got out of the car and came to Ye Chang, bowed deeply, danced in the mountains, and performed a big ceremony that was abolished by Ye Chang's order.

"Gong Wei, what is this doing!" Ye Chang hurriedly mixed him.

"Your Highness is really a god, and your Highness is your husband, and Your Majesty is really ordered by heaven!" Wei Jiansu slapped the two of them on the back with a word, and then said: "This train, the sharp weapon of the military state, Your Highness can get it, and my Tang Dynasty will be safe forever!" ”

He didn't lack knowledge, but he lacked some courage, so when he was in the car, he read some relevant information. Ye Chang likes to use data to speak, for example, in the information of this train, there is clear data on the speed and load of the train.

It was these data that made Wei Jiansu realize why Ye Chang attached so much importance to trains.

"Now that the Tang Dynasty is changing with each passing day, you and I are fortunate to be born at this time, this is the time to open the world, you help me and King Wei, why not be famous in history, why not be rich and noble?" Seeing that the ministers and relatives all stepped forward, all of them looked shocked, Shou An said slowly.

Ye Chang smiled slightly: The conquest of Silla to show the power of firearms, and today's train will show the benefits of skill and art, from now on, the court will really be with him, and the innovative measures he prepared can be drastically launched.